Bringing long-term intentions to year long goals

[thef0x]

Here's how I see myself when I'm 60.

Ph.D
Film Director
Writer
Married w/ kids

Making films that reach a large audience and heighten their perspective.

I read Steve's most recent post about primary focus, mine is finacial, so I can take care of all my education costs (life-long education) and production costs of my films.

I want to ensure my finacial sucess by 22.

Values:

Education
Wisdom
Teaching

How do I translate this stuff into a one year goal.

[The Probabilist]

The fact that you've got such clear goals of what you want to achieve and when helps tremendously to start with. Secondly, first you need to know how you can chop down those ultimate goals into smaller stages. For getting a PhD, it's about how many classes you plan on taking per year. For becoming a writer, you're already writing a blog of your own, so set clear goals of how many posts or words you will write during a given period of time. For becoming a film director, read and educate yourself on what kind of a path towards it is reasonable and how it can be chopped up to smaller sub-goals. As for getting a family, it's also stage by stage. Evaluate where you are today, what is required to reach the final goal, what the stages of each area are and how much time and effort they take. Make the plan reasonable and see through it.

It's simply about setting aside a certain amount of hours every week for engaging in getting closer to these goals.